Re: [PATCH] radix-tree pagecache for 2.4.19-pre5-ac3

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 05:08:42PM -0500, Art Haas wrote:
> I think you've dropped an "=". Maybe this is the cause of the
> other trouble you were seeing?
> I hadn't posted it yet, but I've made a newer version of the
> patch that incorporates the latest changes from Christoph Hellwig
> and Andrew Morton - the changes of spin_lock() and spin_unlock()
> to (read|write)_lock() and (read|write)_unlock, plus a few cosmetic
> changes. I'm running a kernel with those changes right now (and things
> work for me, but we've seen how that goes ...) . I'll rebuild my kernel
> with your fix to the swap_state.c file and see how that kernel
> performs. I can cook up a script to repeatedly build something and
> let things run for a while. If it works I'll post my modified patch tomorrow.
> Thanks again for the feedback!

I did, you will need the == sorry.

I've been running Cerberus with this on a logical 8-way machine
(physical 4-way), it seems to hit about 2-5 minutes into the tests.
I'll back out my own changes and see what I turn up.


Cheers,
Bill
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